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Articles by Merryl Tisch
Free-college programs are valuable, but must be done right
In the years that followed the most recent recession, an astonishing 95 percent of net new jobs created went to workers with at least some college learning. That’s an economist’s take on what far too many high school graduates already know — that, without education beyond a high school diploma, the job landscape is bleak. That concern is especially urgent for lower-income students, who are five times more likely to wind up without a college degree than their more affluent peers.
Merryl Tisch: A destructive attack on mayoral control
The governance of the New York City public school system is too important to be treated as a political football. But that seems like what is happening yet again with the debate over the extension of mayoral control in the closing days of the state legislative session.
Opinion | When a School Board Victimizes Kids
NEW YORK STATE has a proud tradition of local decision making in public education. However, students in the public schools in East Ramapo, about 30 miles north of Manhattan, in Rockland County, are being denied their state constitutional right to a sound basic education by a board that has grossly mismanaged the district’s finances and educational programs.
UFT Leadership digs in against Opt Out
At last night’s (4/13/15) UFT Executive Board, President Mulgrew and another officer tested their newly aggressive stance against the opt out movement.
Immigrant kids squeezing budgets
Every child in New York has the right to a quality, free public education, plain and simple. That’s why reports that have recently surfaced from Long Island and elsewhere around the state are extremely troubling: Thousands of immigrant children from Central America — many of whom who arrived recently as unaccompanied minors — are facing serious bureaucratic hurdles as they try to register, or worse, are being denied the opportunity to enroll in school.
A 9/11 Shrine Where Families Mourned for Years, Now Open to Others (Published 2014)
Building Blocks A memento given to the Family Room, which opened in 2002 in a building opposite ground zero.Credit...Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times ALBANY — Twenty stories above ground zero, its existence and whereabouts known only to those who needed it, the Family Room served for a dozen years as a most private sanctuary from a most public horror.
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